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“Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
“Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery. ”
― Hannah Coulter
― Hannah Coulter
“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
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